Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Love draws all pains into Mary's heart (St. Francis de Sales)

And you yourself a sword will pierce. 
Luke 2:35 

   Consider how love draws all pains, all torments, travails, sufferings, griefs, the wounds, the passion, the cross and even the death of our Redeemer into his most holy Mother’s heart. Alas, the same nails that crucified the body of this divine Child also crucified the heart of his Mother, the same thorns that pierced his head pierced through the soul of this utterly sweet Mother; she bore the same miseries as her Son through commiseration, the same dolorous experiences through condolence, the same passions through compassion; and, in short, the sword of death that pierced the body of this most beloved Son likewise pierced through the heart of this very loving Mother. 

--St. Francis de Sales,
Treatise on the Love of God,
Book V, Chapter 4 



Image source 1: Pieter Porbus, Our Lady of Sorrows (1556), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows#/media/File:Pieter_Pourbus_-_The_van_Belle_Tryptich_(Our_Lady_of_Sorrows)_(central_panel).jpeg 
Image source 2: Anthony van Dijk, Christ on the Cross (1630), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows#/media/File:Antoon_van_Dyck_(1599-1641)_-_Christus_aan_het_kruis_(1630)_-_Sint-Romboutskathedraal_Mechelen_9-06-2012_14-47-052.jpg
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